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It was really an exceptional year for wine, 1997. And it could not be otherwise, for the Primitivo di Manduria doc. Perhaps, it was the scent released by the vines that were preparing to produce those few beautiful bunches and the aware foreboding of the quality of the wine that would come out, to lead a small group of friends to become enthusiastic, in that summer, about the idea of setting up a Consortium of companies that would promote, protect and enhance a product until that day almost considered the "son of a lesser god".
The instrument was the law no.164 of 1992, and on that device they arrived to the notary constitution, on 16th February 1988, where the first statute was recorded by the signing of ten companies, both social and private, certainly among the most representative and illuminated in the area. After that first, essential starting point, every effort was aimed at increasing the number of adherents to get that 40% of the representativeness of the product in protection, the minimum required by law for ministerial recognition, which was finally achieved with the Ministerial Decree of 5th April 2002.
Today, finally, we are able to operate institutionally in the service of producing companies deserving the success achieved thanks to a certain quality to a universally recognized typicality.
The representativeness is increased and, with it, the awareness of producers who, despite the specificity of each individual company, should take a common path guaranteeing a constant minimum quality to make success not fleeting meteor, but beautiful and well–established reality. This task is almost a mission, for the current board of directors who, through shared initiatives and programs, tends to the protection, enhancement and promotion of the Primitivo di Manduria: an ancient wine for an emerging DOC.
Founded in 1934, "Agricole Vallone", a company owned and run by a family, led by Vittoria and Maria Teresa Vallone, who have been taking advantage for years of the technical management of the agronomist Donato Lazzari and of the consulting, for the wine part, of the oenologist Graziana Grassini. The administrative seat is in Lecce, while the farming realities, in the Salice Salentino DOC, the Brindisi DOC, the Salento IGT, as well as the Colline Brindisine DOP, are located in some of the most historically suited to viticulture and olive growing areas in the province Brindisi, in the heart of Salento.
The three bodies of the enterprise cover 660 hectares, including 170 hectares of vineyards, 120 hectares of olive trees and the rest is agricultural land, for the production of artichokes and vegetables in general for the domestic market and the food industry. They are the Flaminio company in the Brindisi countryside (310 hectares, 110 of which are vineyards), the Iore company in the countryside of San Pancrazio Salentino (40 hectares of vineyards), and the Castelserranova company, in the Carovigno compnay (312 hectares, of which 20 vineyard during the installation). Agricole Vallone has two different structures, equipped with the most technologically advanced winemaking equipment, one in the Flaminio farm – Brindisi (a transformation winery where the vinification phase of all wines takes place), the other in Copertino, in the province of Lecce, which houses the wine cellar where bottling takes place and where the delicate stage of refinement occurs (in steel and in wood, in large oak casks and small French oak barrels) of wine.
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via Cavour, 23 70033
Corato (Bari)
C. da Piscine S/n 74024
Manduria (Taranto)
It was really an exceptional year for wine, 1997. And it could not be otherwise, for the Primitivo di Manduria doc. Perhaps, it was the scent released by the vines that were preparing to produce...
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Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo, 86 70059
Trani (Barletta-Andria-Trani)
Via delle Rose, 122 71045
Orta Nova (Foggia)
Via XXV Luglio, 7 73100
Lecce (Lecce)
Founded in 1934, "Agricole Vallone", a company owned and run by a family, led by Vittoria and Maria Teresa Vallone, who have been taking advantage for years of the technical management of the...
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